https://www.emilymunday.co.uk/yw185oghq5t Germany is rejecting demands from an EU body that it should stop surgically castrating sex criminals – a practice that dates back to the Nazis – because it is ‘degrading’. Defying Brussels, the German government said it intends to carry on with the practice citing low re-offending rates among sex criminals who had opted to have the procedure. It pointed out the results of a 1997 study that tracked the history of 104 sexual offenders ‘who subjected themselves to castration in the decade between 1970 and 1980. Their re-offending rate was three per cent,’ the German authorities explained, ‘as opposed to 46 per cent for a control group.’ READ MORE HERE